Olympia Exhibition Centre London
Olympia Exhibition Centre
One of the oldest exhibition venues in London, the Olympia Exhibition Centre is famous for hosting large scale events like the BBC Good Food London Show and the Who Do You Think You Are? Live Genealogy and Family History Show.
When the centre first opened in 1886, it was known as the National Agricultural Hall and played host to the Hippodrome Circus that had among its attractions, 300 horses, six elephants and several hundred acrobats.
Today however, the elephants have been replaced with state of the art audio and visual equipment that help companies and organisations hold large scale events and exhibitions. The centre has also changed itself over that time.
When it first opened, the Grand Hall was the largest building in the country, covering an area of 16,000 metres square (four acres). Today, the Olympia Centre has three large exhibition halls – the Olympia Grand Hall (over 19,000 square metres), the Olympia National Hall and the Olympia Two. All of these halls are equipped to deal with any need a client could require. It has even hosted music acts, with world-famous dance duo The Chemical Brothers playing a gig there in 2008.
As one of London's premier exhibition venues, the centre is easily accessible by a number of public transport links. The Olympia even has its own railway station in the form of the Kensington (Olympia) station, which is also a main line station and a stop for the District Line on the London Underground.
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